Auditory and Visual Integration for Emotion Recognition and Compensation for Degraded Signals are Preserved With Age.

ABSTRACT: Since emotion recognition involves integration of the visual and auditory signals, it is likely that sensory impairments worsen emotion recognition. In emotion recognition, young adults can compensate for unimodal sensory degradations if the other modality is intact. However, most sensory impairments occur in the elderly population and it is unknown whether older adults are similarly capable of compensating for signal degradations. As a step towards studying potential effects of real sensory impairments, this study examined how degraded signals affect emotion recognition in older adults with normal hearing and vision. The degradations were designed to approximate some aspects of sensory impairments. Besides emotion recognition accuracy, we recorded eye movements to capture perceptual strat

SUBMITTER: de Boer MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642111 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature